King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 5:26
“For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 5
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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